Key Information
CPD Hours: 16 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of pre-recorded weekly webinars (which can be reviewed throughout the course), a live Q&A session each week with the tutors, self-assessment quizzes, case discussions, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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The webinars were very engaging and had a lot of useful information that were all applicable to clinical practice.
Course Information
Key Areas
- Triage of the emergency patient
- Initial stabilisation and diagnostics
- Management of urogenital trauma
- Management of the acute abdomen
- Getting the most out of your orthopaedic examination
- Decision making for patients with traumatic orthopaedic injuries
- Traumatic brain injuries and acute spinal cord injuries
Do you feel panicky when you are faced with the patient who has sustained major trauma and worry how best to stabilise these complex patients and which injuries to treat first?
This course can help you! It is the first of two related courses on management of the trauma patient. It will cover initial management strategies as well as how to prioritise and treat major life threatening injuries as well as techniques and definitive/ temporary strategies to manage the patient with soft tissue, orthopaedic and neurological injuries.
Why do this course?
The course aims to equip you with the tools that are required to manage the trauma patient and so increase your confidence and reduce your stress!
The webinars for this course will be pre-recorded and can be viewed as recorded versions throughout the course. Live Q&A sessions with the tutors will run on the following dates at 1.30pm London time.
Q&A session dates:
Wednesday 11th June
Wednesday 18th June
Wednesday 25th June
Wednesday 2nd July
Discount offer:
This course can be purchased on its own or as part of a series with: Webinar Plus: Management of the small animal trauma patient: Part 2
The cost of the courses are £429 for one course or £799 for parts 1 and 2. These discounts will automatically be calculated when the courses have been added to your shopping basket.
Tutors
Stefano Cortellini, DVM MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College
Joe Fenn, BVetMed MVetMed DipECVN FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery
The Royal Veterinary College
Lynda Rutherford, BVM&S MVetMed DipECVS PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery
The Royal Veterinary College
Rhiannon Strickland, BVetMed MVetMed PGCertVetEd DipECVS FHEA MRCVS
Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery
The Royal Veterinary College
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